
It was important for me to announce the decision before the start of the new fiscal year.” He refused to reveal his plans, except saying “have many ideas for the future”. On the timing of his resignation, Gopinathan said, “We are in the most stable times given what we have gone through in recent years. In the first nine months of this fiscal, he delivered a revenue growth of 14.8 per cent in constant currency terms, the best in the industry. Yes, I am also a bit sad as the reality sinks in and at the same time I also feel very light now,” he added.During his six years, he added over USD 10 billion to the company’s incremental revenue and over USD 70 billion to its market capitalisation. And I enjoyed each day I spent with the company. “During past six years I helmed the TCS team with thrill. “I hope to double down on our deliveries,” he asserted.Gopinathan said his 22 years at the TCS has been “fantastic”.”And having decided to move on, which was taken after a lot of deliberations with the family and the group chairman and my mentor N Chandrasekaran, I feel so light now. We will not make any short changes but will continue to drive on our core focus of being with the customers,” he elaborated. But we will change according to what our customers want and how the market changes. “It’s a continuum, we don’t change strategically when a new CEO comes in. Our culture of ‘One Team’ will remain the core focus,” he said. But of course, changes will be there as the markets demand us to make. We will continue as we have been - focusing on customers. “In fact, TCS does not have a culture of making radical strategic changes when it gets a new CEO. TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan resigns K Krithivasan named next CEO, will take over next fiscal year
